The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Everything you can imagine is real.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.